Attorney General Raúl Labrador announced that investigators with the Idaho Internet Crimes Against Children (ICAC) Task Force arrested Philip Jack Lo, 33, of Coeur d’Alene on Wednesday, July 10, 2024. Lo faces seven counts of sexual exploitation of a child by possession of sexually exploitative material and three counts of possessing visual representations of the sexual abuse of children under a new law effective from July 1, 2024.
“I’m very proud of the hard work being done by our ICAC investigators and those agencies and ICAC partners that are committed to protecting kids in our community,” said Attorney General Labrador. “This will be the first case prosecuted under Idaho’s new law that targets AI-generated, animated and other obscene images of child sexual abuse. The people who create and share these images, AI or otherwise, represent a profound threat to the safety and well-being of children across our state.”
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security, Kootenai County Sheriff’s Office, Kootenai County Prosecutor’s Office, and the Coeur d’Alene Police Department assisted the ICAC Task Force. The lead investigator on the case is Jim Bohr from the Meridian Police Department, assigned full-time to the Idaho ICAC Task Force within the Attorney General’s ICAC Unit.
Anyone with information regarding child exploitation is encouraged to contact local police, the Attorney General’s ICAC Unit at 208-947-8700, or the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children at 1-800-843-5678.
The Attorney General’s ICAC Unit collaborates with federal, state, and local law enforcement agencies through the Idaho ICAC Task Force to investigate and prosecute individuals exploiting children via the internet. Additional resources for parents, educators, and law enforcement officials are available at ICACIdaho.org.